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A Carlow Song Cycle
(2019)
sop gtr + tape
Text: Derek Coyle
Duration: 30′
Première: 11 January 2019, VISUAL, Carlow
Elizabeth Hilliard (sop), Morgan Buckley (gtr)
Echium Pininana
(2023)
vn + tape
Duration: 10″
Commissioned by Music Current
Première: 25 November 2023, Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin
Darragh Morgan, violin
eGreeting
(2018)
fl (picc) cl (bcl) tbn e-gtr vn(2) va vc cb + tape
Duration: 11″
Commissioned by the 2018 New Music Dublin Festival
Première:
Crash Ensemble
Entry and Exit Wound
(2021)
fl (+bfl) + tape + live electronics
Text: Edward Denniston, read by Barry McGovern
Duration: 11″
Première: 19 April 2022, Music Current 2022, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Joe O’Farrell (fl), Gráinne Mulvey (live processing)
Evolution
(2003)
2 children’s choirs, 3200 1100, 2 perc, glock, str + tape
Text: Gráinne Mulvey
Duration: 20′
Commissioned by Waterford New Music Week with funds provided by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 26 January 2004, Good Shepherd Chapel, Waterford
The Larks Choir, Waterford Boy Singers, WIT Youth Orchestra, dir. Deirdre Scanlon, Sinead Dempsey, Niall Crowley
The Gift of Freedom
(2010)
sop + tape
Text: Anne LeMarquand Hartigan
Duration: 9′
Première: 27 August 2010, The Teachers’ Club, Dublin
Elizabeth Hilliard
CD Gráinne Mulvey: Akanos & other works
Navona Records NV5943
Great Women
(2020)
sop + tape
Text: Constance Markievicz, Rosie Hackett, Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese
Duration: 26′
Commissioned by
Live Première: 20th April 2023, Richmond Barracks, Dublin
Elizabeth Hilliard
CD Gráinne Mulvey: Great Women
Métier MDS 29007
Great Women was originally scheduled to be premièred at the 2021 Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, but fell foul of lockdown. The very bright silver lining was the filmed performance in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, brilliantly directed by Hélène Montague and John Comiskey.
P9-PBH
(2022)
ob cl bcl a sax bsn + tape
Duration: 15′
Première: 20 April 2022, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Splinter Reeds
Kyle Bruckmann (ob), Bill Kalinkos (cl), David Wegehaput (sax), Jeff Anderle (bcl), Dana Jessen (bn)
Periastron
(2012)
bcl + tape
Duration: 8′
Première: 20 April 2010, The Great Hall, Magee Campus, Derry
Paul Roe
Perihelion-aphelion
(2012)
vn + tape
Duration: 10′
Première: July 2012, Hilltown New Music Festival, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
Barbara Lüneburg
Phonological Loops
(2013)
fl (+picc, afl, bfl) + live electronics
Duration: 10′
Première: 1 March 2013, New Music Dublin, National Concert Hall, Dublin
Joe O’Farrell (fl), Gráinne Mulvey (live processing)
Recording: New Music by Living Composers, series 1, vol 7 Petrichor Records
Resounding Waves
(2014)
fl (bfl) bcl hn C tpt (2) + real-time processing
Duration: 21′
Première: 18 September 2014, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Dublin Sound Lab
Joe O’Farrell (fl), Paul Roe (bcl), Kevin O’Hara (hn), Eoin Cooke, Shane Clear (tpt)
Gráinne Mulvey, live electronics
The Seafarer
(2012)
sop + tape
Text: anon, from the 10th Century Exeter Book, translated by Dr Seán Miller
Duration: 12′
in memoriam Úna O’Farrell-Tate
Première: 7 November 2012, Béal Festival, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Elizabeth Hilliard
Gráinne Mulvey: Akanos & other works
Navona Records NV5943
Shifting Colours
(2011)
fl (+picc, bfl) + tape
Duration: 10′
Première: July 2011, Hilltown New Music Festival, Hilltown House, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath
Joe O’Farrell
Gráinne Mulvey: Akanos & other works
Navona Records NV5943
Soundscape
(1996)
vn vc perc + live electronics
Duration: 10′
Première: 6 September 1996, Rathaus, Schwaz, Austria
Tomasz Bartosiak (vn), Max Angel (vc), Jan Pilch (perc), Marek Choloniewski (electronics)
Soundscape II
(2008)
fl (+picc, afl, bfl) + tape
Duration: 12′
Première: 21 July 2008, Hilltown New Music Festival, Hilltown House, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath
Joe O’Farrell
Soundscape III
(2009)
fl (+picc, afl, bfl) + tape
Duration: 14′
Première: 19 July 2009, Hilltown New Music Festival, Hilltown House, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath
Joe O’Farrell
Gráinne Mulvey: Akanos & other works
Navona Records NV5943
streetorgsounds
(2012)
org + tape
Duration: 11′
Première: 21 November 2012, St Werburgh’s Church, Dublin
David Bremner
Sun of Orient Crimson with Excess of Light
(2020)
pf + tape
Duration: 11′
Première: 7 March 2020, Old St Mary’s Church, Clonmel
Isabelle O’Connell
CD: In Focus 5 RMN Classical
Swirling Sea and Frightened Fish
(2004, rev. 2010)
picc (+fl) + tape
Duration: 3′
Première: 27 January 2004, Waterford New Music Week, Good Shepherd Chapel, Waterford
Joe O’Farrell
Syzygy
(2010)
vc + tape
Duration: 12′
Commissioned by Martin Johnson with funding from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Première: 11 April 2010, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Martin Johnson
Recording: Annette Cleary
Gráinne Mulvey: Akanos & other works
Navona Records NV5943